The CD was a mix of instrumental music, unfamiliar yet strangely familiar. It was sent to Mr. Peterson by a student he'd never entirely understood, Kevin. He had always been a mystery, a shadow lurking in the back of the classroom.

The music was unsettling. He felt the hair on his arms prickle. He felt compelled to play it again.

He turned the volume down. He glanced at the window, suddenly aware of the gathering darkness outside. He had an unsettling feeling in the pit of his stomach.

Emotion: uneasy

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -1.80 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.43

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion uneasy. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 uneasy stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the uneasy emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the uneasy vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
😰0.240
😖0.231
😣0.231
느껴0.226
worse0.222
Suppressed:
de-0.474
la-0.465
happy-0.261
a-0.255
ecstatic-0.228